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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will announce a new 3 year, $2.5 million challenge grant to support PBS's on-air, online 24/7 digital service dedicated to non-fiction programming and the promotion of public engagement.

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PBS KIDS announces a publishing agreement with award-winning educational publisher Brighter Minds Children's Publishing to launch a new preschool book series as part of a licensing program that embraces free play, exploration and imagination.

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Beginning today, PBS takes the wraps off two major new content offerings: NerdTV - broadcast television's first entirely downloadable series - and an array of downloadable podcasts from a variety of PBS signature programs.

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Continuing the organizations' long history of cooperation and partnership, today Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Pat Mitchell, President and CEO of PBS, signed an agreement that formally determines the design, implementation and management of the Next Generation Interconnection System (NGIS).

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Maria Hinojosa, an award-winning journalist and author, has joined the acclaimed PBS newsmagazine NOW as senior correspondent. Hinojosa, who formerly covered urban affairs for CNN, will begin work at the Emmy-winning PBS series immediately.